Re: Making trixie debootstrap-able again?

hi kibi, fwiw, bootstraping trixie still works using mmdebstrap, while it fails with debootstrap and cdebootstrap. I've notified #-release about the debootstrap breakage on the 24th and added that mmdebstrap was still working on the 25th...

Bug#1065463: debootstrap can deal with native dpkg file replacement feature

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 08:36:59AM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote: > debootstrap should be able to solve the libuuid1t64 dependency by installing > libuuid1 only. just in case you are not aware, bootstrapping using either mmdebstrap or cdebootstrap works atm. mmdebstrap is faster and mostly a drop-in

Bug#1060422: partman-crypto: add support for new cryptsetup options for opal/sed

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 10:46:14AM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > huh, if there's a bug in the firmware to accidently store the encryption > > key on the drive in plaintext, it doesn't cost anything extra. > Sure, and if there's a bug in your CPU to accidentally reveal all > kernel secrets to any

Bug#1060422: partman-crypto: add support for new cryptsetup options for opal/sed

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 08:37:30PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Most definitely wrong. If your threat model is "hardware vendor will > spend hundreds of millions of dollars to get at me" then your cpu > vendor, memory controller vendor, etc etc can do that too, so you > better not use this nor

Bug#1060422: partman-crypto: add support for new cryptsetup options for opal/sed

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 07:55:18PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Thank you for the feedback, MR on Salsa is updated as described. <3 -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C

Bug#1060422: partman-crypto: add support for new cryptsetup options for opal/sed

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 11:56:28AM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: [...] > How about if I changed the Description from: > Self-encrypting disk (opal with LUKS2) > to something like: > Firmware-backed self-encrypting disk (vendor-implemented OPAL with > LUKS2) > Would that suffice? If not, do you

Bug#1060422: partman-crypto: add support for new cryptsetup options for opal/sed

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 01:47:59AM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > cryptsetup 2.7.0, currently in experimental, added support for self > encrypting drives using the OPAL functionality as the encryption layer > (managed by the kernel, not by the TCG utilities), both in standalone [...] > I have added

Re: Immediate fallouts from the big linux changes, and actions

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: > Yesterday I published 3 fixes which got merged really quickly. [...] > Now Jenkins is running fine for the live sid images again :-) > In the next step, I'll check the trixie live builds. awesome, thank you! -- cheers,

Re: Immediate fallouts from the big linux changes, and actions

Hi Roland, FYI, you might want to read the full thread! ;) On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 08:38:57AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > This is mostly for information: linux went through a lot of big changes, > initially staged in experimental, and uploaded to unstable as of linux > 6.6.8-1. These

Bug#1054557: Suggest home.arpa instead of "make something up" during installation if no dedicated domain name

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 09:22:04PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > Proposed replacement text: > > "If you are setting up or joining a network for which you do not have > another domain name to use, you should enter 'home.arpa' here." > > It may even be beneficial if this is also reflected by

Re: Bug#837060: debootstrap: Do not install packages of Priority:required for buildd variant

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 07:04:08PM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Paul Gevers suggested that I should NMU to DELAYED/10 without raising the > severity. I also support doing this very much. NMUs to DELAYED/x are awesome. -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁

Re: cleanup of debian installer news

Hi Thomas, On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 01:02:27PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > I'm part of Debian's web team and I like to remove old outdated content. [...] > IMO News become irrelevant very fast, so keeping them on our web pages > does not make sense. I understand where you're coming from and I

Bug#1043226: +1 (Re: Bug#1043226: debian-installer: Please consider moving root user setup to expert install, or change text)

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:03:22PM +0100, Samuel Henrique wrote: > > So, many users, and especially newcomers to Debian, follow the instructions > > in the > > first line and are then surprised when they can't use sudo from their user > > from > > their newly installed system. > I've seen this

Re: Moving debootstrap to fully team maintained (drop Uploaders field)

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 09:49:34PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Thoughts? why don't you just add yourself and Dimitri to Uploaders: and be done? :) -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 03:13:47PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > So, after some delay from me and some further delays from various > Debian machines committing suicide [1], I've got bookworm live builds > running again. \o/ this is great news! thanks and kudos to everyone involved! -- cheers,

Re: Review for the non-free-firmware template in apt-setup

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:01:36PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > don't we want to default this to true? > Why would we enable non-free-firmware if there's no use for it? > hw-detect makes that determination, based on contents prepared by > debian-cd. a. ah, I wasn't aware of this. thanks. b.

Re: Review for the non-free-firmware template in apt-setup

On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 04:24:12PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Template: apt-setup/non-free-firmware > Type: boolean > Default: false don't we want to default this to true? -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 01:32:41PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > 4. Keep all non-free-firmware packages in non-free too. This would be > backwards compatible, but may expose bugs in dak, debian-cd, apt and > other tools, so IIRC this has been vetoed by the archive and CD teams. > This also wouldn't

Bug#1019697: debootstrap: aid reproducible boostrapping by providing a --cleanup-logs option

Hi Chris, On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:00:32AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > This bug is about the first step. It would be really nice if debootstrap > > had an option called --cleanup-logs which would delete those logs. > Would it be sensible to suggest that, instead of an explicit > command-line

Bug#1019697: debootstrap: aid reproducible boostrapping by providing a --cleanup-logs option

Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.127 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Dear Maintainer, using debootstrap 1.0.127 it's possible to reproducible bootstrap Debian, provided one does three extra steps: 1. rm /var/log/dpkg.log /var/log/alternatives.log

Bug#1018740: debootstrap: better initialisisation of /etc/machine-id

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:14:54AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Holger Levsen (2022-08-29): > > So probably it would be better to either remove the file or write > > "uninitialized" into it... or support both via commandline flags :) > For anyone wanting to loo

Bug#1018740: debootstrap: better initialisisation of /etc/machine-id

Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.123+deb11u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, after debootstrapping, /etc/machine-id has a regular machine-id as contents which seems suboptimal as its unreproducible and also, and foremost, this can have nasty side-effects... So probably it would be better to

Re: [ubuntu] tasksel_3.68_amd64.changes (Rejected)

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 01:54:00PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Ubuntu imports Debian source packages after they are in unstable as far as > I know. So, the fact that you got an email from the Ubuntu archive server > is very suspicious. I suspect there was a problem on the Ubuntu

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:49:53PM -0400, Nick Black wrote: > So the only ones covered by partman and not covered by growlight would be: > amiga, atari, sun, > and mac (if mac is not the same as APM). I don't see any difficulty in > adding these four, so long > as there's someone with an Amiga or

Re: Submitting patches for debian-installer

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 12:07:42AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > I would be glad to submit a few small patches for debian-installer, > > > mostly for partman components. What is the preferred way ? Should I > > > file bug reports against each package ? > > Best is to create pull requests on

Bug#994409: +1 (Re: task-laptop: please recommend automatic apt proxying)

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 10:29:51AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The safe default for Debian in any standard installation mode, which I > believe includes tasks, is to talk explicitly to Debian infrastructure. > If people would like to improve local performance, they should automate > the

Re: Addition to release-notes?

On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 01:49:35AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > 'official' and 'inofficial' are IMO the wrong terms here, it would be > > better to call them what they are: Debian main/free installation > > images and Debian main installation images. > Are you choosing to ignore SC#5

Re: Addition to release-notes?

hi, thanks to all of you making installations with non-free firmwares more bearable and finally enjoyable! On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 02:05:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > When using an official installer image, you will most likely need to > enable the non-free component of the archive, when

Re: Speed up installation: increase priority of eatmydata-udeb to standard

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 01:56:13PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Hands, le mer. 28 avril 2021 11:04:42 +0200, a ecrit: > > Could we start out with a baby step having a new experimental-netinst > > flavour of ISO, which includes a list of experimental udebs in addition > > to the normal

Bug#987441: debian-installer: D-I must get ready for Bullseye

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:16:45PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2021-04-23): > > Carried over from D-I Bullseye RC 1 errata: > > - amdgpu firmware > There's no “umbrella bug report” for it at the moment, but here's a > thread and pointers to various bug reports: >

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 08:38:00AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [...] Please let me know via > https://bugs.debian.org/986772 > if you agree or disagree with > that change, and I can apply it if no-one objects by the end of the week. for those not following that bug, this has been fixed

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 08:20:42AM +0300, ValdikSS wrote: > 1. To speed up base system install (the first installation step), > debootstrap should be improved to use libeatmydata for internal dpkg call. > [...] or maybe mmdebstrap could be used instead? AFAIK it doesn't use libeatmydata but

Re: Manually add firmware (or other) packages for installation?

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:21:58AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > And there was a huge discussion on debian-devel in January regarding > > firmware/nonfree etc., starting here: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/01/msg00151.html > I'm not going to read through that huge

Bug#964579: lsblk not included in busybox version used with installer

Package: busybox Version: 1:1.30.1-4 Severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: Russell Weber submitter: Russell Weber On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 02:43:43PM -0600, Russell Weber wrote: > Package: busybox > Version: 1:1.30.1-4 > Severity: wishlist > lsblk is a very useful tool for understanding your current

+1 (was Re: netcfg: proposal for template change)

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:11:13PM +, Justin B Rye wrote: > [...] It might be better to simplify in the general direction of > > The value you provided is not a usable IPv4 or IPv6 address. > Please consult your network administrator and try again. that. (+1) -- cheers,

Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i

On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:27:07PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > And I just saw the "argument". The argument was "It's 2018". That's not > an argument. the longer form of the argument is: it's 2018 and except for 100 people on this planet, noone is using floppies anymore. "cognitive

Bug#855151: #855151: tasksel: should not be Priority: important

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:52:22PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > tasksel is currently at Priority: important and thus installed in every > > > installation, including chroots installed via debootstrap. It doesn't > > > seem a useful package to install in chroots though. > > > > > > It would

Bug#942875: debootstrap does not overwrite existing files even if adviced to do

severity 942875 normal # thanks Hi, thanks for reporting this bug. however... > I suppose this a bug, since debootstrap did warn before it would > overwrite files! yes, it's a bug. but not even important one according to https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities -- cheers,

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - final patch

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 11:37:39PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Using "media" for a singular word just sounds weird for anyone knowing > Latin. that's how many promille of the world population? also: using "handy" as a word for a mobile phone sounds weird for anyone knowing

Re: [rb-general] Bug#926242: jenkins.debian.org: Please test reproducibility status of Debian Installer images

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 11:47:34AM -0300, Chris Lamb wrote: > > > So, I heard a vague rumour that this "buster" thing was released? I > > > was thus wondering whether we could apply my patch from: > […] > > https://bugs.debian.org/926242#117 makes me think this is not to be > > applied against

Re: [rb-general] Bug#926242: jenkins.debian.org: Please test reproducibility status of Debian Installer images

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 10:27:02AM -0300, Chris Lamb wrote: > So, I heard a vague rumour that this "buster" thing was released? I > was thus wondering whether we could apply my patch from: > https://bugs.debian.org/926242#127 https://bugs.debian.org/926242#117 makes me think this is not to be

Re: Building CD images including firmware

On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:10:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I would like to build the CD images for Debian Ports including firmware > since some hardware, especially Alpha machines, won't be able to install > without firmware for their storage controllers. > > Is there a guide

Re: Heads-up: new lintian error: no-human-maintainers

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 01:50:24AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I don't really see what's so specific about d-i here. I agree, this is not about d-i. -- tschau, Holger ---

Re: Heads-up: new lintian error: no-human-maintainers

Hi, I've added debian-policy@l.d.o to recipients as I believe this either warrants an exception for debian installer packages or maybe this should be redfined for all. On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:02:49PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > With the removal of Christian Perrier from Uploaders in

Bug#923675: debian-installer: consider using haveged to gather entropy

Hi Cyril, On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 11:28:23PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > does that also mean that haveged get's installed on the final system if > > it's deemed to be useful in d-i or is that still missing? > There's nothing in what I have written (on this bug report or in the > code I've

Bug#923675: debian-installer: consider using haveged to gather entropy

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 02:39:49AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I've tweaked it a little so that we log whether haveged is available, > and whether it should be started, in case we need to investigate: > >

Re: Bug#926242: jenkins.debian.org: Please test reproducibility status of Debian Installer images

Hi, kudos for the progress so far! On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:50:26AM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote: > Just throwing out ideas here but perhaps this binary package could > contain at least the hashes of the generated files you mention? or we setup debian-cd builds as well..! -- tschau,

Bug#924258: Tiny tiny rescue mode

package: installation-reports submitter: Joerg Jaspert x-debbugs-cc: Joerg Jaspert On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 11:52:23PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > with a UHD screen resolution on a thinkpad, using "Debian GNU/Linux > buster-DI-alpha5 "Buster" - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 >

Re: default desktop

Hi Samuel, On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:07:17PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Re-opening the question of the default desktop just a bit to provide > updated information: the current gnome-with-wayland default is a concern > for accessibility. Accessibility on Wayland has a lot of glitches in >

Bug#919982: reassigning #919982 to debian-cd

reassign 919982 debian-cd thanks Hi, AFAICS #919982 was introduced when trying to fix #769589, and then #919982 has effectivly been closed by https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/commit/dc48123273092fa011b09a5d1204b055ce40d2a4 though it's not been closed in the BTS yet. (Maybe it

Re: Bug#914897: #914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 10:21:50PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > gzip, icecc and mailagent were most recently built for buster on > 2018-11-08, which might be long enough ago that the buster chroot was > not merged-/usr? right. I triggered their builds and now they are all shown as

Re: Bug#914897: #914897: debootstrap, buster: Please disabled merged /usr by default

Hi, Ansgar, thanks a lot for doing this! On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 06:06:28PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > So, I went through all reproducible build failures in unstable without > notes and added notes for differences caused by building in merged-/usr > vs non-merged-/usr packages. Together

Re: Access request to Salsa for Debian Installer translations (Romanian)

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 09:44:50PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Isn’t it enough to just send pull requests with the translation updates? it's maybe enough, but it's so much better and easier and joyful if translaters can commit themselbes. Also it's pretty simple to review these

Re: Documenting installer issues for jessie LTS

Hi, thanks for your work on documenting how to install jessie these days! On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 10:23:45PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I assume this is going to appear at > . That seems > a fairly prominent place, though the errata

Re: pkgsel_0.61_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 07:47:25PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > You missed to add translation updates for Korean and Latvian in the changelog > file for your 0.61 upload. > > Can such things be added to the changelog afterwards, just for completeness? > Strictly spoken, the 0.61 tag would then

Re: Bug#910560: [choose-mirror] fails to build when parallel build is activated

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 10:30:06AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > (can also be seen at jenkins: > > > https://jenkins.debian.net/view/d-i_packages/job/d-i_build_choose-mirror/ > > > where I found it initially) > dpkg-buildpackage -j is like the worst option to ever have been introduced > and not

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

Hi nicoo, On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:27:10PM +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > On virtual machines, however, the data that the HAVEGE algorithm produces > is not necessarily unpredictable [1]; hence, we shouldn't install haveged > on those environments. interesting, thanks! sadly it doesnt

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Do we have a reasonablish way of telling whether a system is “real” > > hardware or a virtual machine, and choose whether to install haveged or not > > accordingly? > systemd seems to have a reliable way of doing that

Re: APT Date verification

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:07:54PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > It's a bit unclear if this only affects validation of the Date field, > or also turns off Validation of the Valid-Until field (as a generic "turn > off all date-related checks" option). Opinions on that? there definitly

Bug#839046: debootstrap: enable --merged-usr by default

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 08:19:33PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 09:16:40 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Dec 23, md wrote: > > > On Dec 20, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > > This change was reverted in 1.0.87 as dpkg-shlibdeps didn't cope > > > > >

Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 04:13:12PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > I think its totally adequate to assume people want automatic security updates, > on all kinds of systems, unless they opt out. also because people like consistancy. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Descriptio

Bug#875858: pkgsel: Offer to install/manage unattended-upgrades

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:34:08PM +0100, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > This is not an adequate default for non-Desktop setups, this should rather be > pulled in via some of the desktop tasksel tasks, but not in general. I think its totally adequate to assume people want automatic security updates,

Re: Easier installer?

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:03:12PM +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: [calamaris] I recently found simple-cdd to be simple and awesome. I should really write that blog post I wanted to write about it. One day, hopefully. That said, I do agree with Wouter's basic assertion that we could

Re: Fw: Re: debian-installer: call to update translations - Greek

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 08:50:00PM +, Sotirios Vrachas wrote: > More of standardization issue, if it can be considered an issue at all. > For example, do we translate "Bootloader"? if "bootloader" were translated to German I would not understand the translation. Same for internet, proxy,

Bug#881626: busybox: enable telnetd

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 01:35:14PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Anything that makes it more work for you and hence gives more incentive > for you to get the clueless people that want to keep using telnet to > change is a good thing. Allowing telnet access ought to be made as > difficult as

Bug#795735: encrypt on suspend2ram (Re: Bug#795735: partman-crypto: always encrypt swap)

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 04:37:54PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > suspend-to-disk > --- > If the user suspends to disk, then the memory will be written to disk. even if the user suspends to RAM, the key will stay in memory, which is can be pretty bad (as it can be taken from

Re: RFC: Switching guided partitioning to LVM by default?

On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 04:06:49PM -0400, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Current default is the first entry, and I think we should switch to > second one, with LVM. I agree & yay! -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i-netboot-images package outdated (was Re: Debian Installer Stretch RC 5 release)

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 08:45:47AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Shall I file an RC bug to make the problem more visible and known? > As mentioned in the announce: We're doing another d-i upload for the > release anyway. til then, having up2date debian-installer-netboot-images packages

d-i-netboot-images package outdated (was Re: Debian Installer Stretch RC 5 release)

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:19:17AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Known bugs in this release > == [...] > See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-installer-netboot-images hasn't seen an update in a while (and

Bug#860824: jenkins.debian.org: switch d-i manual tests to use buildone_ng.sh to easily build manual from po files

package: jenkins.debian.org x-debbugs-cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Hi, jenkins.debian.org should really use these new scripts. Help much welcome. (though also filing this bug for myself for when I have time…) On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:59:53PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > I have

Bug#749991: Wrong kernel in debian-installer package

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:54:18PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > One can always use http://snapshot.debian.org/ as one's mirror and > > specify a dated URL that matches the ISO's creation date. > I think (based on the last few paragraphs in the "Usage" section of > that URL) that one would also

Bug#851555: Blends install options removed from tasksel menu

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 09:44:09AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > The change (ba4e0289) also makes it more difficult for others to add > items to the installer tasksel menu for customized builds without a > technical reason. FWIW, we're using this workaround for Debian Edu now:

Bug#851368: unblock: debian-edu-install/1.911

Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package debian-edu-install, it's blocked because it has an udeb (which is not used by d-i by default). Not sure if I should have filed a bug for this. And also KiBi said in

Re: Bug#850563: jessie-pu: package debian-edu-install/1.821+deb8u2

Hi, as this was such a trivial change, I forgot that d-e-install also produces udebs and as such you probably want an KiBi ack, thus cc:ing him and debian-boot for feedback+acking. Thanks! On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 09:15:56PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Se

Bug#848929: installation-reports: no problem

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:14:20AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > as another data point, for reproducible-builds we're running four i386 build > > nodes on virtual amd64 hardware, with 36GB ram each, and at least building > > the > > Debian archive works nicely. > But are they amd64 installs

Bug#848929: installation-reports: no problem

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 07:29:40AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > So did you actually mean to install a 32 bit OS on a nice 64 bit machine > > with 32 GB ram? > > Just curious.  Obviously it will work, > Well, it will boot, but it probably won't work properly - see bug > #695182. interesting.

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 04:18:10PM -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote: > i think the new default should be mentioned in the release notes and currently this change in debootstrap has been reverted. I do agree however that if /usr-merged gets enabled again, it must be duely noted in the release notes. --

Re: l10n co-coordinator [Was: Re: d-i manual: call for translation update ?]

Hi Holger :) On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > > So my idea in one sentence: not only make a call for translations, but > > also make a call for helping coordinating these translations. > Ok, I would volunteer for this job :-) whh, thats very great news!

Bug#846006: debian-cd: please provide flavor/spin netinst image for Debian Edu

Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.18 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Hi, as a followup to #846002 and #846003, please provide a flavor/spin netinst image with debian-edu-profile-udeb installed. #846003 has the implementation details, this bug is for tracking installable media with debian-edu-profile

Bug#846005: debian-cd: please provide flavor/spin netinst image with blends-tasks installed

Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.18 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i affects: blends-tasks Hi, as a followup to #846002 and #846003, please provide a flavor/spin netinst image with blends-tasks installed. #846003 has the implementation details, this bug is for tracking the installable media with

Bug#846003: debian-cd: please provide different flavor/spins of netinst images

Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.18 Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i Hi, as a followup to #846002: How to allow Debian blends be installed easily from official Debian media? My idea to implement official Debian which can be used to install blends is to introduce "flavors" (or spins or whatever,

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must be priority:standard and not make a mess out of tasksel menu

Source: blends Version: 0.6.94 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: Policy 2.5 and breaking another package Hi, I'm sorry, but the current implementation of installing Blends from Debian images is simply not acceptable, as in, it completely breaks the UI of debian-installer thus the

Re: d-i manual: call for translation update ?

Hi Christian, On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 08:32:17AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > It would definitly be good. You "just" need, however, to get ready to > receive tons of questions from people who "want to help" and thus need > guidance to do so. > > It will eat a bunch of your time and you'd

Bug#806984: debian-installer: FTBFS: File not found:libtextwrap.so.1

retitle -1 debian-installer: ftbfs because d-i needs network to build… thanks On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 11:10:11AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > This isn't a locale issue at all: [...] > FTBFS due to 4.7 vs. 4.8 kernel udebs is expected to be an issue (fixed > in master where the ABI bump

Bug#806984: debian-installer: FTBFS: File not found:libtextwrap.so.1

Hi, On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 03:42:15AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Looking at your A02_user hook, I don't see anything locale-related (now or > in previous commits). I've tried setting LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8 and I don't see > debian-installer's master fail to build in a sid chroot. when possible

maybe not /usr-merged but 0700 for / could be the culprit here

reassign 844220 usrmerge,debootstrap Hi, someone mailed me privately and pointed me to this forum post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186056=2 which made me realize that debootstrap had another change: TARGET is now created with 0700 permissions and not 0755 anymore, though I couldnt

Re: Bug#840400: Issue seems in nls_ascii module not available

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 02:33:34PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Thomas Wuensche (2016-10-15): > > I also had that problem and could work around by loading nls_ascii.ko > > module manually. It turned out that the vfat mount to access the EFI > > partition failed due

Re: d-i_manual builds failed on jenkins.d.n

Hi Baptiste, On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:09:02PM +0200, Baptiste Jammet wrote: > The last commits (r70291 & 70292) for update some french strings in the > d-i manual triggers a build on jenkins that failed. > My local builds (jessie) were successful, but the jenkins logs say: > > W:

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:18:24PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Problem 2: CPU's built-in graphics work badly. > [...] Skylake > graphics probably need some yet unreleased kernel version. Skylake != Skylake I have another Skylake system which works ok with 4.6 kernel and xorg-server-video-intel

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 08:55:39AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > ACK - I'm not wedded to the name in the slightest. It's more a > proposal of what we're going to do. ok, cool. > >maybe "jessie+bpo-installer" would be a better fit? > Maybe that fits, but it's horrid name. I don't think it's

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 11:43:14PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >I assume "forking" the kernel for jessie+½ as done for etch-and-half is > >the plan already? (forking as in using a new source package…) > God, no - really *not* that way at all. I'm thinking of using the > kernel in backports at

Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 04:01:10PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > I still wonder if a fork of the last linux:src=4.4, updated to bring > it to linux-4.4.14 would be a lower support burden? I'm still finding > that there are a fair number of issues reported with 4.5.x and 4.6.x > on various

Bug#433568: support for detecting missing firmware for vlan support

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I've never heard of that situation before. I think you have: PEBKAC :) the server is located in a loud+dusty+dark room, has 4 ethernet devices and it seems I mixed them up… > Which hardware is this? > Where is the need for

Bug#433568: support for detecting missing firmware for vlan support

Hi, I've installed Debian jessie in a setup yesterday, where I needed to use vlan, so I was very happy when I saw that this bug has a patch. However, the network card I used works nicely for configurations without vlans without loading additional firmware, while it needs a non free firmware to

Bug#827562: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#827562: Bug#827562: task-xfce-desktop: Depends on light-locker Should Be Recommends

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:50:18AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On dim., 2016-06-19 at 09:19 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:08:56AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > Because we *want* light-locker as part of the default Xfce install

Bug#827562: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#827562: Bug#827562: task-xfce-desktop: Depends on light-locker Should Be Recommends

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:08:56AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Because we *want* light-locker as part of the default Xfce install. Well, having it in recommends is enough for that. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#827562: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#827562: task-xfce-desktop: Depends on light-locker Should Be Recommends

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:57:44AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > task-xfce-desktop is for installation time, so here Depends is correct. We > > want light-locker by default, but people are free to remove it afterwards if > > they know what they do. I still don't see why this cannot be

Re: Bug#758116: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

Hi Ole, thanks for your clarifications. Even though I don't think anyone assumed bad faith I think it's good you explained your motivations / review on what happended why and when… On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:38:00AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > I feel now a bit unhappy that there was no

Re: Bug#758116: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

Hi, two more ideas from irc: < pabs> KiBi, tbm: re blends/desktops stuff, what about showing that only in expert mode? < h01ger> or a dedicated image, which uses a kernel cmdline param to enable blends-mode… -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Status of https preseed support?

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 02:47:20PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > For instance, instead of "auto url=https://example.org/;, > perhaps just "auto s=example.org"? I want preseeding from signed git tags! :) Signed with a key in the Debian keyring would be a nice start… auto

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